druck.at Traiskirchen Lions

About druck.at Traiskirchen Lions

The druck.at Traiskirchen Lions are the basketball club from Traiskirchen and one of the clubs with the longest tradition in Austria. The men's team has played in the top division without interruption since the 1983/84 season, today the win2day Basketball Superliga. Home games are played in the Lions Dome at Karl-Theuer-Straße 10. More about the club is in the Wikipedia article Traiskirchen Lions.

From Möllersdorf to the Bundesliga

The club was founded by the Möllersdorf parish priest Friedrich Tscherney, according to Wikipedia on 24 October 1966, as UKJ Möllersdorf. At first it played outdoors: the parish courtyard was asphalted and baskets were set in concrete. The pupils lost the first league game on 15 November 1966 against Oberwaltersdorf 3:20. In 1983 the club reached the top division without ever having won the second division, and it has never been relegated since. In 2000 it moved into the newly built Lions Dome.

Titles

• Austrian champions: 1991, 1994 and 2000
• Cup winners: three times, first in 1997 – in 2000 the club won the double of league and cup
• Youth: numerous national and state championship titles

Two later NBA players also came from Traiskirchen: Nemanja Bjelica played for the Lions from 2007 as a 17-year-old, and Jakob Pöltl played his only season in the Austrian league in 2013/14.

Youth: 30 teams from U6 to U19

According to the club, its focus is on young people. Around 450 players train every week in the Lions Dome, divided into 30 teams, including five girls' teams (since 2018) and three cheer team groups.

• U6 to U8: mixed groups, not yet in league play
• From U10: two groups each for the boys, so that newcomers can keep up more easily
• Training: twice a week up to U12, then up to three times
• U16 and U19: performance teams with four sessions a week for the national championship, alongside recreational teams

If you want to play, you will find the contact persons on the website under "Jetzt mitspielen".

Home games and LIONS Card

Tickets for home games are available as day tickets and as VIP season tickets in the Lions ticket shop. All playing members as well as all season and VIP ticket holders automatically receive the LIONS Card. Its QR code serves as an admission ticket for all home games in the Superliga regular season, excluding play-off and cup games. There are also benefits with partners in the region.

The next home games are in our calendar, for example against the Eisenstadt Dragonz on 24 October (in German). The latest on the season: Traiskirchen Lions: league leaders ahead of home game (in German). The name sponsor and main sponsor is the online printing company druck.at from Leobersdorf.

Contact

Behind the Lions are the club Sportunion druck.at Traiskirchen Lions (ZVR 194467916) and, for professional operations, Traiskirchen Lions Basketball GmbH, whose managing director is Noah Ottenschläger. You can reach them on +43 660 4100757 or at office@traiskirchen-lions.at.

Automatically translated from German.

Compiled by our editorial team.